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by wiz21c 1401 days ago
Me too, I was hoping to get a Linux phone at a price that match the current lack of polish (for me the pinephone had that price) but Linux means community and diversity for other OS'es to me. So if they don't work with the community, then half the value of the phone disappears...

I will now consider buying second hand phone with postmarketOS support. It means I'll have to accept proprietary hardware but, as it will be second hand, it means I'll be more in line with my eco-environemental-whatever-half-baked principles.

Nobody cares, I just wanted to illustrate what are the reasons I would like to buy a Pine64 and how those reasons revolves around some basic principles and trade off's.

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You could also get a second-hand PinePhone (just buy postmarketOS CE or later to avoid bad hardware bugs).

Regarding other postmarketOS supported devices, I quite like the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 and the OnePlus 6 - but be aware that bootloader unlock on the Xiaomi is a bit painful and charging on the OnePlus 6 is really slow (although that might have been fixed lately/be fixed soon).